eucatastrophe n. eucatastrophic [ < Gr. eu, "good" and catastrophe Coined by JRR Tolkien.] 1. (in a narrative) The event that shifts the balance in favor of the protagonist when all seems lost. 2. A happy ending.

04/28/2018

“I am haunted by memories that refuse to be forgotten."

Remembrance REVIEW

Imagine you are walking down a street and you notice a man standing next to a car as a bus pulls up. People get off the bus as the man watches. The last person off the bus is a woman. She comes from behind the bus with a suitcase on rollers. She looks across the street at the man. He looks back intently.

Now write the back story.

This is what you are seeing when the film ends and rolls to credits. I cannot imagine that anyone could write a more riveting back story than this one. It is a story about memory – about thirty year old memories. And I can only say, “it was not a movie that left my memories alone.”

“I thought I was finished with the past,” the protagonist, Hannah Silberstein, tells us, “I am haunted by memories that refuse to be forgotten. I try to hide but they always find me.”